Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990

Joseph E. Murray

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Prize share: 1/2

E. Donnall Thomas

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 was awarded jointly to Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas "for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"

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